Love Her or Lose Her

A Novel

By: Tessa Bailey

Narrated by: Charlotte North

Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's Summary

New York Times best-selling author Tessa Bailey returns with a unique, sexy romantic comedy about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation....

Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they used to be, anyway. Now, Rosie’s lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with 10 years ago is nowhere to be found. When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she decides to demand more out of love, too. Three words: marriage boot camp.

Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippie. Dom talking about feelings? Sitting on pillows? Communing with nature? Learning love languages? Nope. But to her surprise, he’s all in, and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation. As they complete one ridiculous - yet surprisingly helpful - assignment after another, their remodeled relationship gets stronger than ever. Except just as they’re getting back on track, Rosie discovers Dom has a secret...and it could demolish everything.

©2020 Tessa Bailey (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

Real life marriage problems

So refreshing to read a book about real marriage problems where there wasn’t cheating or some big unforeseen catastrophe. Just two people working on their flaws and strengthening their communication.

Wasn't a terrible romance, just wasn't memorable

I think I was excited to read this romance because as far as I know this is the few romances this author has with PoC leads. I figured hey, why not give it a try on audio. I actually think hearing the actress butcher the hero's Bronx accent, I would've been better off with just the ebook instead.

I really liked the concept of this book. About a married couple who just fell into a boring routine and just couldn't find the heart to do anything about it until the heroine filed for separation. I think my issue was just that the hero and heroine were both Latino/a, but I wasn't satisfied with the representation. The hero was Puerto Rican and kind of misogynistic and bonehead-ish. It was like he had no interest in his wife unless it was having sex with her. And the heroine was mixed race, Argentine and African-American meaning she was Afro-latina and yet, she never called herself that. She could've been just Argentine and it wouldn't have mattered. I don't see why she was both it the author wasn't going to incorporate both cultures. I don't know any mixed race black people who don't take some sort of interest in their black side, too. As an Afro-latina reader, I'm not sure why every Afro-latinx character every author chooses to write about is mixed race??? There are latinos(YES EVEN FROM ARGENTINA)that are black without being mixed race. I just don't know why people is 2020 haven't learned that yet!!!

The hero was kind of stereotypical and machismo, I just think it was a bad look for PR men and it's gonna limit my reads from this author unless they're white characters.

Tessa never fails

Love, love, LOVE this book! I tried to just listen only when I was exercising but I started hiding my AirPods under my hair and listening while my husband and kids tried to talk to me. I couldn’t stop! Can’t wait for Bethany’s story!

Intriguing and well narrated

This book was a great follow up to Fix Her Up. Right away the author got you sucked into Dominic and Rosie’s story— the well developed characters keep you invested right from the start!

The narration was excellent - Charlotte North did a great job of voicing the different characters without them sounding cheesy or fake.

Wonderful

This one is a real journey it tugs you in every direction and reminds you of the beauty of love

Tessa Bailey does it again!

Such a wonderful heart warming story. I couldn’t put it down. 5 stars, highly recommend.

Amazing!!

Absolutely loved this book!! Written extremely well!! Narrated extremely well!! Highly recommend this audiobook! It was a great story!

Good book, well performed

Aside from the fact that the therapist in this book essentially committed malpractice and could NEVER get away with what he pulled 3x over— this was a good and entertaining book.

Second chance story

What can I say, besides I absolutely loved this book. It’s a second chance romance, with all the feels.

Firstly, I have to say I absolutely love Tessa Bailey and she hasn’t disappointed me with this book. This is a story of Rosie and Dominic and they have been together since high school. After several years of just do-existing, Rosie has had enough. She wants more..... can Dom save is marriage before it’s too late.

This is the second book in the series, it can read as a stand-alone, but highly recommend reading in the order. Do your a favour and read or listen to this book now.

I cannot finish this book. It's too bad.

This is honestly one of the worst books I have ever read or listened to. It is unnecessarily sexual in weird places. I've never been married, separated, or divorced but I guarantee that's not how people act when they're breaking up. The author had the opportunity to really explore the psychology of a soldier after war and she blew it by having his character only be about sex. Rosie's character is just as shallow. She talks about how she wants to go home to him within the first few chapters. Girl, if you want to go home, then do it. The games she was playing was just as disgusting as Dominic only caring about sex.

The narrator was good, but she made Dominic sound like he was always angry. Aside from that, I had no issues with that aspect of the book.

Book two

I wasn't sure if this was my thing, almost read the end to check I'd like it. I'm glad I didn't though and trusted it'd be ok. I'm never sure about books starting with a rocky marriage. This book restored my faith it developed and grew to a brilliant finale. I loved it

Loved it!

Listened to a couple of Tessa Bailey books now and I’m obsessed! Loved this just as much as the first book in the series